How technology helps during rainy weather road conditions

Monsoon is already on its way to India, bringing much-needed relief from the intense summer heat. However, the monsoon season also comes with its own set of challenges, particularly for drivers.

Can MG Motor India bring a revolution in small electric car space?

If you may have noticed, small electric cars are becoming a vogue in several developed countries. These are typically two-door cars that can seat four people comfortably. Take the example of Wuling Air mini electric...

Global NCAP, safe cars and the Indian way of driving

The year 2022 has come to an end. The second half of 2022 had its own share of road accidents, some of them extremely fatal, some of them tragic, horrific and scary.

Speed Thrills, It Kills too, but what the hell, let’s have fun!

I love it when a random auto journalist in India writes in his column that a high speed car needs to be driven on a race track. Auto journalists are typically that breed of professionals who “run with the hares and ...

Seat belts, over speeding, velocitation, crashes and deaths

Just the other day a leading English newspaper came out with a report quoting a data released by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB). It said that road crashes in India claimed 426 lives per day or 18 every hour...

List of SUVs, ideal for a trip to the mountains

one needs to wisely choose the right vehicle to avoid any trouble during the trip. Mountains roads can be tricky, which in turn requires that the vehicle is very capable and sturdy.

My name is Tommy, I am a stray dog (Part 2 of 2)

But strangely, I realised there were humans who loved us. But I wondered whether it was superficial. If they loved us so much, why did they not take us to their homes and adopt us? All I got was a pat on my head so...

Atmanirbhar, Really? Do you believe in that?  Part 2 of 2

But all the talk of “Atmanirbhar Bharat” makes no sense if it does not bring in the moolah for the investor. In the early days of post Independence making moolah was very difficult because of the “red-tapism” and co...

Diesel Ban: Throwing Baby Out with Bath Water

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has passed several orders in the recent past and each need to be criticised for its shortsightedness. It passed an order banning cutting of trees in Delhi. That was ludicrous to say...

Stripping India to its bones

I needed a break and I decided to revisit the United States of America. The last time I spent in this fabulous country was 15 years back in the year 2000. Since then the country may have sold millions and trillions ...

Papa says ‘No’, Mama says ‘No’ to traffic norms

Remember the line from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare? “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”. I can truly use that line for India now. There is something very rotten in the state of India. Forget ab...

Maggi Noodles, Shah Rukh Khan and cars

Maggi noodles have suddenly become a piece of villainous commodity. In this country of ours we need to find a scapegoat. Once we find that, we all point our fingers at it, yell at it, pounce on it and haul it over t...

Ban old vehicles; are you kidding?

It’s easy for any tribunal, whether green or blue, to put a ban on vehicles. Earlier, as per the Motor Vehicles norms in the country, a vehicle life was put at 15 years, beyond which the vehicle needed to be get a f...

To hell with the trees, let the roads come up

With BMWs, Mercedes-Benzes and Audis getting popular, the need for speed on roads is understandable. These are fast cars and are safe and stable too. But no matter how broad a road you get to drive in India, you sti...

Roads, Roads, Roads

Roads, Roads, Roads

Feb 01 2015

Why it is that India is not able to build good roads? Let’s take for example the stretch of road from Mehrauli to Mahipalpur in South West Delhi which sees traffic jams every single day of the year. Thousands of veh...

Sex, road rage, accidents and bad driving--it’s all in the Indian DNA

Indians at large possess some of the sharpest brains in the world. But when it comes to following traffic rules, they behave in some of the weirdest ways. India is a country where sex is literally taboo, yet prostit...

Autonomous Driving: Apocalypse Now

Every day we hear someone or the other, thinking of ways to replace the traditional human driver from the car, thus removing driver error from the equation all together which seems like a good idea…in theory. But...

For God’s sake keep your country clean

Ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a clarion call to make India clean (Swatch Bharat), there has been a flurry of activities, both genuine and fraud, trying to heed to his call. Some have honestly taken up...




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